Billy Budd & Typee Cliffs Notes

Emmerson, O.B.; Carey, Gary (editor)

ISBN 10: 0822002388 / ISBN 13: 9780822002383

Published by Cliffs Notes Incorporated, Lincoln NE, 1990

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sticker residue on front wrapper. Copyright 1968 64 p.

Seller Inventory # QR00301

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Billy Budd & Typee Cliffs Notes
• Publisher: Cliffs Notes Incorporated, Lincoln NE
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822002388
• ISBN 13: 9780822002383
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Used-Acceptable
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Textbooks

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Synopsis

Forty years separate the writing of these books, and Melville's moral concerns are highly visible in Billy Budd, in which a young sailor willingly accepts his punishment after accidentally killing an evil man. In Typee, Melville romanticized his own adventures as a merchant seaman on a Polynesian island. Typee is generally considered nothing more than adventure and travel writing, whereas Billy Budd is open to interpretation and is considered a much more literary work.